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Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) and Councilman Kevin de Leon will take part in a Los Angeles mayoral candidates forum at ICM Partners on Tuesday that will focus on what is perhaps the biggest issue in the race: homelessness. The event, called Solving Homelessness and sponsored by Politico and ICM Partners, also will feature Alf…

John Lewis, the civil rights leader and long-time congressman who died in 2020, left a legacy in the creation of a foundation to carry on his push for young people to stay civically engaged — what he called “good trouble.” In Washington, D.C. this week, Alfre Woodard and Common were among the figures who helped…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actress Alfre Woodard is joining New Line’s Salem’s Lot bunch in the big-screen take of the 1975 Stephen King vampire novel, we can tell you first. She’ll play Dr. Cody, who in the novel is a guy, Dr. Jimmy Cody. Cody assists Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman in the film), Susan Norton (Makenzie…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard is set for a recurring role in BET+/CBC’s The Porter, an original drama series about a group of 1920s railway workers who unite to form the world's first Black union. Woodard also will serve as an executive producer on the series, from Inferno Pictures and Sienna…

If you look at all of Kevin Hart’s credits on IMDb, you would be hard-pressed to find much of anything that shows off his skills as a dramatic actor. Maybe The Upside opposite Bryan Cranston would give us a clue mixed in with the broader comedy, but finally he has found some material that really shows he has talent…

EXCLUSIVE:  Morgan Freeman, Alfre Woodard, Trevor Jackson, Common and Bill Burr are set to star in Revelations Entertainment’s Hate to See You Go.  The Ben Tishler directed feature, which he co-wrote with Rob Stone, tells the story of Sonny Bell (Freeman), an aging Chicago Blues musician, who refuses to retire and…

The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC celebrated its 86th annual awards ceremony to celebrate this year’s winners and for the first time, it was virtual. The pre-recorded ceremony was hosted by NYFCC Chair Stephanie Zacharek of Time Magazine. She presented awards alongside last year's winners Martin Scorsese (Best…

For one night only, Regina King, Tracee Ellis Ross, Alfre Woodard and Sanaa Lathan will be the iconic ladies of The Golden Girls. Playing Rose, Dorothy, Sophia and Blanche, respectively, the actresses will kick off the Zoom Where It Happens series, a weekly live table read program centered on informing and raising…

Alfre Woodard has done something no one else ever has — scoring a total of 17 Emmy nominations for 16 different roles, a feat that stands alone in Emmy history. She has won four of them, along with many other awards, in her storied acting career. And now there is Oscar buzz for her latest performance as a prison…

It has been a busy time for Alfre Woodard, beginning in January, when Chinonye Chukwu's Clemency debuted at Sundance to critical acclaim, winning the Grand Jury Prize. Although the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning Woodard has had a number of noteworthy performances this year—from a dramatic rendering of the Mueller…

Chinonye Chukwu's sophomore feature Clemency has had long legs this year, debuting to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January before quickly becoming a steady festival favorite around the world. It was in the States, though, that the film's subject matter hit the hardest, with Alfre Woodard starring as prison…

Neon brought the films Parasite and Clemency to The Contenders Los Angeles on Saturday. Parasite is a Korean con artist film that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year. Clemency is an American drama about a death row warden that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. The connection is that both filmmakers…